The latest theatre news from Los Angeles — show openings, casting announcements, reviews, and touring productions.
Who’s ready to party? It’s The Great Gatsby week, so every song comes straight from the hit Broadway musical that has audiences cheering every night at the Broadway Theatre! Now starring Jeremy Jordan, it’s the biggest party on Broadway.
Cameron Watson will become Skylight’s new Artistic Director.
Incitation to the Dance will have its World Premiere engagement, written and directed by Michael Van Duzer.
Broadway’s master songman, Mandy Patinkin, accompanied by Adam Ben-David on piano, will bring his newest theatre concert Mandy Patinkin in Concert: BEING ALIVE, to the Carpenter Center.
El Portal Theatre will present Irving Berlin’s White Christmas on the Debbie Reynolds Mainstage, for six performances only.
Dance Camera West’s 26th season of the world-renowned Los Angeles–based Dance Camera West Festival has been revealed.
Combined Artform + Asylum will present the return of the second annual 30 Minutes or Less Festival, running at the Stephanie Feury Studio Theatre in Los Angeles.
Tickets are now on sale for two musicals in The Colony Theatre's 2026 season, including Millennials Are Killing Musicals, an original musical comedy with book, music, and lyrics by Nico Juber.
Center Theatre Group has revealed the cast for a new production of the musical Here Lies Love at the Mark Taper Forum featuring music by Grammy, Oscar, and Tony Award winner David Byrne and Grammy Award winner Fatboy Slim.
Samantha Fish and Jesse Dayton have set a special performance of their GRAMMY-nominated 2023 album Death Wish Blues at Los Angeles' Whisky A-Go-Go for Halloween 2026.
Laguna Playhouse has revealed a change to its 2025-2026 season with the Orange County premiere of the Broadway hit, based on the making of the movie Jaws, the Ensemble Theatre Company of Santa Barbara’s production of The Shark is Broken.
Open Fist Theatre Company will present the Los Angeles premiere of Brownstone by Catherine Butterfield.
The Paley Center for Media has announced the first selections for PaleyFest LA 2026, including Nobody Wants This, Shrinking, and The Pitt.
The Broadway Benefit Bash brought performers and community members together for an evening of music and charitable outreach at Musical Mondays LA.
Rachel York joins a starry cast of Broadway peers as Michael Orland and David Green's Musical Theatre University Team Up With Palm Springs Art Museum to bring A Very Broadway Christmas to the desert in the Museum's beautiful Annenberg Theatre for two special nights in December -- December 16 and
ArtsUP! LA will present WAKE UP BECKY, an evening of stand-up comedy as a way of bringing levity to the subject of racism.
Michael Dukakis’ new play PUNISH ME will have its world premiere at the Hudson Backstage Theatre, presenting a psychological thriller centered on a writer pulled into a dangerous relationship.
Emily Goglia will present THE LIMELIGHT CLUB in a holiday-themed edition at Bar Lubitsch in West Hollywood.
Independent Shakespeare Co.
Standout moments include “Lonely Jew” by a brilliant Rena Strober, which made the entire evening for me.
Los Angeles-based jazz vocalist, pianist, and composer Niia has announced a special slate of live shows for two nights only: February 23rd at Blue Note NYC and March 1st at Blue Note LA.
Guillermo Cienfuegos will return to A Noise Within to direct a streamlined, high-velocity, darkly entertaining take on William Shakespeare's Richard lll.
The World Premiere of Alexandre Rockwell’s The Projectionist has been selected as the Opening Night selection for the 32nd edition of Slamdance Film Festival.
Ryan O'Connor and The Los Angeles LGBT Center will welcome Jason Michael Snow for the upcoming one night only concert reading of A Very Queer Christmas Carol.
REDCAT will introduce a Winter/Spring 2026 season featuring new work in dance, theatre, opera, music, and visual art.
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Much Ado About Nothing McCadden Place Theatre (8/07-8/16) |
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After the Blast The Broadwater Second Stage (8/05-8/13) |
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Catch Me If You Can Colony Theatre (9/17-10/18) |
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Emily Skinner: In Concert Feinstein's at the Nikko (8/14-8/15) |
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Gershwin and the Golden Age Younes and Soraya Nazarian Center for the Performing Arts (The Soraya) (10/11-10/11) |
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John Lloyd Young Feinstein's at the Nikko (8/21-8/22) |
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Julius Caesar Marin Shakespeare Company (8/14-9/13) |
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The Lion King Pantages Theatre (12/17-2/13) |
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Frankenstein: Resurrection The Nocturne Theatre (9/11-9/30) |
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A Faery Hunt and Their Animal Friends Kindred Spirits Care Farm (12/06-12/06) |
